Teachers' roles in second language learning : classroom applications of sociocultural theory

• Other Authors: Yoon, Bogum (Editor), Kim, Hoe Kyeung (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2012.
• Series: Research in second language learning.
• Subjects: English > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.; Language and languages > Study and teaching > Social aspects.; Education, Bilingual.; Code switching (Linguistics); Language Arts & Disciplines > Study & Teaching.; Language teaching theory and methods.; Language teaching and learning.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806614998
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-849-4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 272 pages)

This book is designed to provide practical applications of sociocultural theory with regard to teachers' roles in second language education. By providing specific examples of teachers' roles in the classroom, the book aims to help researchers, teacher educators, and classroom teachers make...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by leo van lier
• Introduction: Sociocultural theory as a theoretical framework for understanding teachers' roles in second language learning / Bogum Yoon and Hoe Kyeung Kim
• Part I. Linguistic perspectives
• Chapter 1. How teacher talk can guide student exploratory talk: Communication, conjecture, and connections in a fourth and fifth grade ell classroom / Maureen P. Boyd
• Chapter 2. Mediating meaning in interaction: Researching the connection between professional development and teacher practice / José David Herazo and Richard Donato
• Chapter 3. Mediating learning and negotiating curricular ideologies in a fourth grade bilingual classroom / Lara J. Handsfield
• Chapter 4. Teacher and students' use of gesture as a meaning-making affordance for second language learning / Alessandro Rosborough
• Chapter 5. Teacher discourse and code choice in a Swedish efl classroom / Kristy Beers Fägersten
• Chapter 6. How do teachers participate, mediate, and intervene in the coconstruction of language knowledge during learner interactions? / Melinda Martin-Beltrán
• Part II. Cultural perspectives
• Chapter 7. Teacher's use of funds of knowledge to promote class participation and engagement in an efl context / Hoe Kyeung Kim and Soyoung Lee
• Chapter 8. Teachers' roles in facilitating novice writers from generation 1.5 / Paula M. Carbone
• Chapter 9. Teachers' cultural inclusivity and ells' participation in language and literacy activities / Bogum Yoon
• Chapter 10. Working with preschool English language learners: A sociocultural approach / Joyce Bezdicek and Georgia Earnest García
• Part III. Social perspectives
• Chapter 11. Teacher discourse and peer interaction in linguistically diverse classrooms / Ester J. de Jong
• Chapter 12. An esl instructor's strategic teaching in a collaborative learning community / Eun-Jeong Kim
• Chapter 13. Teachers' roles and mediating strategies of learners' engagement in the l2 classroom / Jennifer R. Smiley and Marta Antón
• Chapter 14. Second grade esl literacy success in a U.S. Mainstream classroom / Amma Akrofi, Carole Janisch, Amira Zebidi, and Karla Lewis
• About the contributors.